RoboHelp 6 for Word 2007

[itaywand]

Hello,

I am running Office 2007 and Word 2007. Yesterday I purchased and installed Robohelp 6 for Word. It doesn't seem to work with this version of Word.

What it the latest version of Word that Robohelp 6 is compatible with?

Can I uninstall just Word 2007, install the compatible version, and keep the rest of Office 2007 installed. Or, do I need to uninstall Office 2007?

Thanks.

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum.

That'll be because the Getting Started guide indicates that RH6 supports up to Word 2003. :-)

I'll be adding some instructions to my site over the weekend about having Word 2003 and Word 2007 installed and having RH6 work with Word 2003.

In short, you have to uninstall Word 2007 (not the whole of Office 2007).

Uninstall RH6.

Install Word 2003

Install Word 2007 (this assumes you have licences for both rather than having bought an upgrade)

Open Word 2003 and then close it.

Install RH6.

Whenever you want to use RH, if you last used Word 2007 for something else, you need to run Word 2003.

Each time you switch from one version of Word to the other, Word will go through a configuration routine that takes a minute or so. I found a registry change that will stop that and it will be on my site. For now, live with the configuration.

[itaywand]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll search for a Word 2003 installation.

As a follow-up question, can I import my older Robohelp files and edit them in Robohelp 6 without using Word at all? I assume that Word would be used for exporting the file to a printable format. If this is so, can I not just export it to a different format, for example, PDF, and bypass using Word?

[Peter Grainge]

You need Word to generate the PDF. You cannot create a PDF from scratch. Think of PDFs as printers. You choose a PDF program from a list of printers in any application you are using. Instead of sending data to a printer though, they create another file type. You have to have something to create the data for the PDF program. Word does that. If you choose not to have a Word document, all that happens is it is created behind the scenes, used to generate the PDF and then trashed.

My snippet now includes the registry change.